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echo: nthelp
to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Robert Comer
date: 2004-09-30 14:26:48
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Yes tabs (just checked)! Well, kind of - they're basically buttons
> (default at the bottom of the screen), but work the same as tabs.

Buttons, yuck, I like tabs.

> (Damn I hate this kind of cleverness for no reason. There's a perfectly
> valid method of displaying multiple pages of whatever one at a time, and
> that's tabs. So why use buttons for it? Because it's cool? Well it's not,
> it's just confusing to the user who is used to buttons being buttons and
> tabs being tabs. Stop it already!)

Two for two. 

It's a pity all the software producers out there don't share your vision!

- Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:415c425a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yes tabs (just checked)! Well, kind of - they're basically buttons
> (default at the bottom of the screen), but work the same as tabs.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (Damn I hate this kind of cleverness for no reason. There's a perfectly
> valid method of displaying multiple pages of whatever one at a time, and
> that's tabs. So why use buttons for it? Because it's cool? Well it's not,
> it's just confusing to the user who is used to buttons being buttons and
> tabs being tabs. Stop it already!)
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:415c15df$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> No tabs.
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> news:6p4ol017kidgnpe3nnc5cgkb2rje6l1t8l{at}4ax.com...
>>> This IE frontend is updated fairly regularly:
>>>
>>> http://www.avantbrowser.com
>>>
>
>

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